The Obama administration apparently is telling lawmakers that the Taliban threatened to kill Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl if the pending deal to free him was made public — but sources suggest that’s no excuse for keeping Congress in the dark.

One Senate aide told Fox News that senators were told at a briefing on Wednesday that “the U.S. obtained credible information that, if anything about the swap became public, Bergdahl would be killed.”

According to The Associated Press, several congressional officials say they were told the same thing.

But one senior source told Fox News that this claim is “ridiculous,” since “notifying Congress does not make it public.”

Suspect in fatal Moncton police shooting spotted but no arrest
June 5, 2014

A heavily armed gunman suspected to have shot three Mounties dead and injured two others in Moncton, N.B., was spotted Thursday morning but police were unable to apprehend him after he went into a wooded area, the RCMP said.

The most recent sighting of the suspect was just after daylight Thursday and while police were able to positively identify him, he evaded capture, said Assistant Commissioner Roger Brown, the Mounties’ commanding officer in New Brunswick.

‘We would all die for him’: 6 soldiers who served with Bergdahl seek answers
Published June 05, 2014

Six soldiers who served in the same platoon as Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan expressed anger, sadness and outrage over what they said unequivocally was Bergdahl’s willful desertion five years ago, with one telling Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, “we would all die for him and he left.”